Very happy to announce I’ll be playing at the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen, Holland on Friday August 28th. Click here for details.

“ALEX HIGHTON

Late-blossoming singer-songwriter

Divorced parents, tumultuous relationships and an identity crisis combined with a musical upbringing. Tough as this may seem, this apparently is the recipe for becoming a brilliant singer-songwriter. Alex Highton’s biography […]

“Alex Highton – Nobody Knows Anything
by DAVID WEIR on 11 FEBRUARY, 2015
in ALBUM REVIEWS
With the fan-funded debut, ‘Woodditton Wives Club’ under his belt, faced with LP no. 2, was Alex Highton to tear off wildly into the blue or carefully plan his next artistic step? Well, as the Liverpool-born balladeer clearly proved with his […]

“Seriously,seriously good with layered delights and a killer production.
Sometimes the best music comes from the left field. This disc arrives unheralded by PR nonsense and slips effortlessly into the slot. Within 5 beats pen is laid down and ears are pricked and they remain so for the entire album all 55 minutes odd of […]

“Alex Highton’s second album surfaced towards year’s end, but any waves of wonder were lost in the pre-Christmas shemozzle.

The Scouser singer-songwriter deserved better. His follow-up to the folky and bucolic Woodditton Wives Club (2012) changes tack to deliver a genre-crossing, inventive and lyrically adroit album, loosely themed around the question of the existence of […]

“Now signed to fledgling UK label Gare Du Nord, Cambridgeshire based singer songwriter Alex Highton has taken his honest folk style to new levels for his second album. One of the most ambitious folk albums you will ever hear.”